The filigreed ironwork of a stairway saved from Louis Sullivan's demolished Chicago Stock Exchange leads unexpectedly to the second floor.
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Many of them are told in the bold designs of young architects such as Dankmar Adler, Daniel Burnham, John Root and Louis Sullivan.
The church had been able to raise enough money to help restore some of the grandeur of Louis Sullivan's dramatic interior.
It was Louis Sullivan's apprentice, Frank Lloyd Wright, who endowed Chicago with its most distinctive style, the "Prairie School", from a small studio in Oak Park.
It was designed by famed architects Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler.
Architects such as Dankmar Adler, Daniel Burnham, John Wellborn Root and Louis Sullivan, making use of such innovations as steel, lifts and electricity, soon developed the skyscraper.
He also drew on the achievements of the first Chicago School the magnificent early steel-frame office buildings designed by the likes of William Jenney, Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan.
The world's four greatest statisticians never took a course in statistics, Mr Ackoff would point out, and three of America's greatest architects (Henry Hobson Richardson, Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright) never took a formal course in architecture.
And as the Pritzkers and so many others here can attest, if you love architecture there are few better places to live than in my hometown of Chicago. (Applause.) It is the birthplace of the skyscraper -- a city filled with buildings and public spaces designed by architects like Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry, who is here tonight.
In 1954, 24 boxers became the first inductees into the Boxing Hall of Fame, including Henry Armstrong, Gentleman Jim Corbett, Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson, Joe Louis and John L. Sullivan.
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